Departures (Okuribito) 2008 Special Edition DVD Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
www.vermontmoviestore.com

Departures (Okuribito) 2008 Special Edition DVD Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki

$19.99
{{option.name}}: {{selected_options[option.position]}}
{{value_obj.value}}
Store Logo

Vermont Movie Store

View Store

Departures (aka Okuribito) 2008 DVD Special Edition (Region One - Playable in the US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Color Approx. 125 min. Widescreen (1:85:1) Japanese with optional English subtitles. Beautiful. Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki Written by Kundô Koyama  Directed by YôjirôTakita When professional cello player Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) is left jobless after the orchestra he plays in disbands, he and his wife Mika (Ryôko Hirosue) move from Tokyo to the family home in rural Yamagata. Here Daigo stumbles upon a vaguely-worded advertisement in a local newspaper for a job assisting 'departures'. He turns up at the interview and is hired on the spot by his new boss Sasaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki), only to discover the post is for an assistant nôkanshi, or traditional mortician, performing the Buddhist rites of washing and preparing corpses for their final journey. Initially he keeps the nature of his employment hidden from Mika, but as his disgust for his work tur

Show More Show Less